New post on ! The State of Type 3 Transactions After Pectra: One Month of Blob Data Activity By: - leobago 🔗 Highlights: - Approximately 300,000 Type 3 transactions (t3tx) occurred in the first month after the Pectra upgrade. - 85 different senders contributed to these transactions, with the top 25 senders responsible for over 93% of the total. - 84% of t3tx have at least two slots of distance from the next transaction by the same sender, indicating a spread-out posting pattern. - The study highlights potential issues for sharded mempool designs, where closely timed transactions from the same sender could lead to inclusion problems if they land in different shards. - The findings suggest that while some batching behavior exists among large senders, most transactions are sufficiently spaced out to avoid blocking each other. ELI5: This research looks at a new type of transaction in Ethereum called Type 3 transactions (t3tx), which help manage data more efficiently. After a major upgrade called Pectra, the study found that a lot of these transactions were happening, mostly from a few big senders. It also checked how close together these transactions were submitted, which is important for how well the system can handle them.